b'Alan W Black'

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∙ 02/14/2023

Speaker-Independent Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion

To build speech processing methods that can handle speech as naturally a...

0 Peter Wu, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/29/2022

Articulatory Representation Learning Via Joint Factor Analysis and Neural Matrix Factorization

Articulatory representation learning is the fundamental research in mode...

0 Jiachen Lian, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/27/2022

Token-level Sequence Labeling for Spoken Language Understanding using Compositional End-to-End Models

End-to-end spoken language understanding (SLU) systems are gaining popul...

0 Siddhant Arora, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/27/2022

A Fast and Accurate Pitch Estimation Algorithm Based on the Pseudo Wigner-Ville Distribution

Estimation of fundamental frequency (F0) in voiced segments of speech si...

0 Yisi Liu, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/11/2022

CTC Alignments Improve Autoregressive Translation

Connectionist Temporal Classification (CTC) is a widely used approach fo...

0 Brian Yan, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/13/2022

Deep Speech Synthesis from Articulatory Representations

In the articulatory synthesis task, speech is synthesized from input fea...

0 Peter Wu, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/06/2022

ASR2K: Speech Recognition for Around 2000 Languages without Audio

Most recent speech recognition models rely on large supervised datasets,...

0 Xinjian Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/01/2022

Building African Voices

Modern speech synthesis techniques can produce natural-sounding speech g...

10 Perez Ogayo, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/24/2022

On Advances in Text Generation from Images Beyond Captioning: A Case Study in Self-Rationalization

Integrating vision and language has gained notable attention following t...

0 Shruti Palaskar, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/01/2022

Deep Neural Convolutive Matrix Factorization for Articulatory Representation Decomposition

Most of the research on data-driven speech representation learning has f...

0 Jiachen Lian, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/29/2021

ESPnet-SLU: Advancing Spoken Language Understanding through ESPnet

As Automatic Speech Processing (ASR) systems are getting better, there i...

0 Siddhant Arora, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/02/2021

Cross-lingual Transfer for Speech Processing using Acoustic Language Similarity

Speech processing systems currently do not support the vast majority of ...

6 Peter Wu, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/01/2021

Switch Point biased Self-Training: Re-purposing Pretrained Models for Code-Switching

Code-switching (CS), a ubiquitous phenomenon due to the ease of communic...

5 Parul Chopra, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/31/2021

Towards Language Modelling in the Speech Domain Using Sub-word Linguistic Units

Language models (LMs) for text data have been studied extensively for th...

2 Anurag Katakkar, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/18/2021

Intent Classification Using Pre-Trained Embeddings For Low Resource Languages

Building Spoken Language Understanding (SLU) systems that do not rely on...

7 Hemant Yadav, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/12/2021

Speech Summarization using Restricted Self-Attention

Speech summarization is typically performed by using a cascade of speech...

0 Roshan Sharma, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/29/2021

Rethinking End-to-End Evaluation of Decomposable Tasks: A Case Study on Spoken Language Understanding

Decomposable tasks are complex and comprise of a hierarchy of sub-tasks....

0 Siddhant Arora, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/10/2021

CodemixedNLP: An Extensible and Open NLP Toolkit for Code-Mixing

The NLP community has witnessed steep progress in a variety of tasks acr...

31 Sai Muralidhar Jayanthi, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/04/2021

Grounding 'Grounding' in NLP

The NLP community has seen substantial recent interest in grounding to f...

10 Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/26/2021

Focused Attention Improves Document-Grounded Generation

Document grounded generation is the task of using the information provid...

26 Shrimai Prabhumoye, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/03/2021

Intent Recognition and Unsupervised Slot Identification for Low Resourced Spoken Dialog Systems

Intent Recognition and Slot Identification are crucial components in spo...

0 Akshat Gupta, et al. ∙

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∙ 03/27/2021

Unsupervised Self-Training for Sentiment Analysis of Code-Switched Data

Sentiment analysis is an important task in understanding social media co...

0 Akshat Gupta, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/01/2020

Automatically Identifying Language Family from Acoustic Examples in Low Resource Scenarios

Existing multilingual speech NLP works focus on a relatively small subse...

0 Peter Wu, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/07/2020

Acoustics Based Intent Recognition Using Discovered Phonetic Units for Low Resource Languages

With recent advancements in language technologies, humansare now interac...

0 Akshat Gupta, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/20/2020

Comparison of Interactive Knowledge Base Spelling Correction Models for Low-Resource Languages

Spelling normalization for low resource languages is a challenging task ...

0 Yiyuan Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/14/2020

Dissecting the components and factors of Neural Text Generation

Neural text generation metamorphosed into several critical natural langu...

0 Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, et al. ∙

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∙ 10/09/2020

Case Study: Deontological Ethics in NLP

Recent work in natural language processing (NLP) has focused on ethical ...

0 Shrimai Prabhumoye, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/11/2020

LTIatCMU at SemEval-2020 Task 11: Incorporating Multi-Level Features for Multi-Granular Propaganda Span Identification

In this paper we describe our submission for the task of Propaganda Span...

0 Sopan Khosla, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/25/2020

Nonlinear ISA with Auxiliary Variables for Learning Speech Representations

This paper extends recent work on nonlinear Independent Component Analys...

7 Amrith Setlur, et al. ∙

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∙ 06/10/2020

ClarQ: A large-scale and diverse dataset for Clarification Question Generation

Question answering and conversational systems are often baffled and need...

12 Vaibhav Kumar, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/28/2020

A Corpus for Large-Scale Phonetic Typology

A major hurdle in data-driven research on typology is having sufficient ...

0 Elizabeth Salesky, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/27/2020

Phone Features Improve Speech Translation

End-to-end models for speech translation (ST) more tightly couple speech...

0 Elizabeth Salesky, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/04/2020

Exploring Controllable Text Generation Techniques

Neural controllable text generation is an important area gaining attenti...

0 Shrimai Prabhumoye, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/01/2020

Style Variation as a Vantage Point for Code-Switching

Code-Switching (CS) is a common phenomenon observed in several bilingual...

0 Khyathi Raghavi Chandu, et al. ∙

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∙ 05/01/2020

Topological Sort for Sentence Ordering

Sentence ordering is the task of arranging the sentences of a given text...

0 Shrimai Prabhumoye, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/29/2020

Politeness Transfer: A Tag and Generate Approach

This paper introduces a new task of politeness transfer which involves c...

0 Aman Madaan, et al. ∙

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∙ 04/17/2020

AlloVera: A Multilingual Allophone Database

We introduce a new resource, AlloVera, which provides mappings from 218 ...

0 David R. Mortensen, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/26/2020

Universal Phone Recognition with a Multilingual Allophone System

Multilingual models can improve language processing, particularly for lo...

0 Xinjian Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 02/26/2020

Towards Zero-shot Learning for Automatic Phonemic Transcription

Automatic phonemic transcription tools are useful for low-resource langu...

0 Xinjian Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 01/10/2020

Towards Minimal Supervision BERT-based Grammar Error Correction

Current grammatical error correction (GEC) models typically consider the...

17 Yiyuan Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 12/04/2019

A Resource for Computational Experiments on Mapudungun

We present a resource for computational experiments on Mapudungun, a pol...

0 Mingjun Duan, et al. ∙

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∙ 11/03/2019

Question Answering for Privacy Policies: Combining Computational and Legal Perspectives

Privacy policies are long and complex documents that are difficult for u...

0 Abhilasha Ravichander, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/30/2019

A Dynamic Strategy Coach for Effective Negotiation

Negotiation is a complex activity involving strategic reasoning, persuas...

0 Yiheng Zhou, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/30/2019

Augmenting Non-Collaborative Dialog Systems with Explicit Semantic and Strategic Dialog History

We study non-collaborative dialogs, where two agents have a conflict of ...

0 Yiheng Zhou, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/15/2019

Induction and Reference of Entities in a Visual Story

We are enveloped by stories of visual interpretations in our everyday li...

0 Ruo-Ping Dong, et al. ∙

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∙ 09/03/2019

CMU GetGoing: An Understandable and Memorable Dialog System for Seniors

Voice-based technologies are typically developed for the average user, a...

0 Shikib Mehri, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/30/2019

Linguistic Versus Latent Relations for Modeling Coherent Flow in Paragraphs

Generating a long, coherent text such as a paragraph requires a high-lev...

1 Dongyeop Kang, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/02/2019

SANTLR: Speech Annotation Toolkit for Low Resource Languages

While low resource speech recognition has attracted a lot of attention f...

0 Xinjian Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 08/02/2019

Multilingual Speech Recognition with Corpus Relatedness Sampling

Multilingual acoustic models have been successfully applied to low-resou...

0 Xinjian Li, et al. ∙

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∙ 07/18/2019

WriterForcing: Generating more interesting story endings

We study the problem of generating interesting endings for stories. Neur...

1 Prakhar Gupta, et al. ∙

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